Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...July 6) called at the Treasury Department for its second conference on the funding of Italy's $2,000,000,000 debt. When the meeting was over, it was announced that there would be no more conferences until late in August. The reason? Apparently Mr. Mellon made it plain that any settlement must be made on the basis of Great Britain's settlement and any modifications must be based on proven incapacity of Italy to pay. Mario Alberti, Italian expert, replied that Italy was the only nation in Europe which was now spending less for military purposes than...
...fortnight ago 18 balloons shot into the air from Solbosh Plain in Belgium to compete anew for the Gordon Bennett Cup,* presented in 1906† by the son of the James Gordon Bennett who founded The New York Herald. This cup was won for a third time, and, according to the rules, outright, by Belgium last year; but through the generosity of the Belgian Aero Club in redonating it for competition, this year's event was made possible...
...think it entirely plain that the act of 1922 unreasonably interferes with the liberty of parents and guardians to direct the upbringing and education of children under their control. . . . The fundamental theory of liberty upon which all governments in this Union repose, excludes any general power of the State to standardize its children by forcing them to accept instruction from public teachers only...
...Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Cannot say definitely...
...England. No Tolley. No Wethered. No Holderness. No invading Americans. It was a situation without recent precedent in the history of British Amateur Golf Championships. But there it was, as plain as the nose on a plain caddy's face, and you had to accept it, whether you liked it or not. The indomitable Tolley, who had beaten Hans Samek of Hamburg, ''the first German ever entered in a British golf championship," was eliminated by a man named Thompson who had never before got beyond the first round. It was Douglas Grant, U.S. resident in Britain...